Titular Metropolitan See of

Nicæa

Turkiye Turkiye

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Continent: Central and Southwest Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Titular Metropolitan See Metropolitan See

Name: Nicæa (latine) / Nicea (Italiano) / Nicæn(us) (Latin)

Location: Iznik, pr. Bitinia II, Turkiye

History

Titular Archbishop

Titular Archbishop:vacant

Past Ordinaries

Metropolitan Archbishops of Nicæa (Roman Rite)

Saint Archbishop Theophanes
(842 – 845)

Born:778? (Jerusalem, Israel)
Consecrated Bishop:842
Died:845 (Nicaea, Turkiye † 67)
Feast:12.27

Metropolitan Archbishop of Nicæa (842 – 845)

Archbishop. Brother of Saint Theodorus. Defended against iconoclasm.

Former Titular Bishops

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